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"content": "the leader of the minority party, the chairpersons of committees and members.” Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Sen. Mungatana, MGH is trying to derive this powers from Article 117. We have been given the powers to legislate. The only binding effect is on legislations. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there are resolutions, when a Committee goes to seek a Statement or when a Motion is adopted on the Floor of the House, there are other matters, many Reports and Messages that we adopt in the House. However, at the end of the day, no one acts on them. They gather dust. There is a famous saying in this country, that reports are gathering dust in some of the offices. This Bill will provide a cure because of the definition of a responsible officer. In the last Session, for example, we adopted a Report on land injustices against the Talai Community in Nandi and across Kenya. I was then the Chairperson of JLAHR. There were a number of issues that we raised on their forceful eviction from Nandi to other parts of the country such as Kericho and Luo Nyanza. In that Report, we recommended that the National Land Commission (NLC) issues an order of re-surveying and provide an alternative land and compensation. It is sad that no one followed to implement the resolutions. We said that there must be affirmative action to ensure that the Talai Community which had settled in Talai, near Sironoi, be given an alternative land. The NLC was given a directive. The counties were to take an affirmative action and employ some members of the Talai Community. It was never done. There was another issue in that report. I am using it as an example so that members can get it. Mutual legal assistance was to be provided by the national Government, through the Office of the Attorney General, to pursue justice, the same way some Mau Mau did, by going to London. It was never done. Why not? It was resolved and adopted, but there was no reporting mechanism to tell this House what the NLC had done on the issue of allocating alternative land for settling the Talai Community. This law is now trying to be prescriptive. If today, we bring a Motion that says, there must be a school feeding programme for every child that goes to Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE). The Motion will have resolutions. The Committee on Education, through the Clerk, should be able to report back to the House, that all ECDE centres in 47 counties are feeding children daily. Therefore, they are not threatened by hunger thus ensuring attendance of classes. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the President is working on cleaning the Nairobi River. Nairobi Rivers Commission has been formed. I saw my famous friend, Hon. Ferdinand Waititu, is part of that Commission. How do we ensure that the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources reports back, when the cleaning is done and ensures that the Executive cleans the river? This Bill done by my brother Sen. Mungatana, MGH is prescriptive, in its reporting mechanism. Therefore, it is implementation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if today, for example, people are evicted, anywhere across the country, such as in Ruai during COVID-19 pandemic, who will ensure they are"
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